Moon Chin’s favorite airplane-the Douglas Dolphin
The Dolphins’ wings were skinned with plywood, and the nails tended to loosen with the impact of each water landing. One of Moon Chin’s copilot duties was to no...
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What #1 bestselling author James Bradley has to say about China’s Wings
Yesterday was a big day. Working back and forth with my editors at Bantam, we closed the last detail. China’s Wings is finished. Took seven and a half yea...
CNAC and the Long March
it was surely no coincidence that eighty-six thousand soldiers of the Communist Red Army began crossing the Yadu River that day, taking the first steps of a yea...
Gas streetlamps sputtered…
All through my research process I’ve been amazed at what a good lens CNAC proved to be for seeing the larger story of China’s struggle to unify and...
Photos of CNAC during the Chinese Civil War
Here are a few more photos courtesy of Steve Michaels, son of CNAC Captain Joe Michaels… all were taken in the late 1940s, during the Chinese Civil War. D...
the engine coughed, sputtered twice, and died
Moon Chin makes a forced landing in a Loening Air Yacht
Only three things seemed able to hold his interest…
Chuck Sharp is another of the CNAC stalwarts I’d like to introduce. He made his own way to China in 1933 and caught on with CNAC because his 1,000 hours o...
Hugh Leslie Woods and a favor for the U.S. Navy
Woody swallowed his irritation and agreed. Back in Hankow, an errand boy delivered a wrapped package to Woody’s apartment, and, as promised, it was only six or ...
An even better picture of William Bond
This one also comes courtesy of CNAC scion Diego Kusak, who currently lives in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province in Southwest China.
The man himself — William Langhorne Bond
And here’s a picture of Bond himself, courtesy of Diego Kusak in Kunming, China… (Looks to me like Ryan did a pretty good impersonation for his Hist...